Lovely Molly (2012)
This 2012 film directed by Eduardo Sanchez, who directed a film pinnacle to horror The Blair Witch Project. To know that he directed a film that has fallen under so much scrutiny, positive as well as negative, and knowing that the kinds of concepts that are used in The Blair Witch Project for example the point of view shots gives us a clear link to his types of films. And Lovely Molly is very similar, gives the same type off effect and gives out the same atmosphere. Synopsis:
Lovely Molly is the story of a newlywed couple who move in the wife Molly's newly deceased father's house where Molly's repressed memories begin to emerge. We find out that Molly has a lot of memories from this house and as she is a recovered drug addict we aren't sure whether the things that Molly sees are real or fragments of Molly's vulnerable mentality. Everything seems idyllic until strange sounds begin emanating from deep in the house and something starts to set off their high-tech alarm system. When Tim later departs for an extended road trip, Molly begins to rapidly deteriorate, frightening her sister and raising serious concerns from her boss. Though suspicions of a relapse into drug abuse soon surface, the reality of Molly's situation is much more terrifying. An unimaginable evil dwells in Molly's home, and it won't stop until she submits to it completely.
Unique Selling Point:
Lovely Molly is not like any other film that is out there. Although, there is a recent up rise in horror films based around the supernatural horror sub genre after the release and popularity of the Paranormal Activity franchise by Oren Peli since 2007, there has been a pattern in the types of storyline in horror films and mostly somehow surrounding the paranormal central idea. During this hype, all horror films started to become quite tedious, repetitive and predictable, which is something you definitely do not want in a horror film, and definitely not a psychological horror which Lovely Molly develops into.
We need to consider this factor for our film. We need to consider the fact that because there have been a sudden increase in horror films, even though they're only #7 in the Top Grossing Genre since 1995-2012 (http://www.the-numbers.com/market/) it is still a tight market. I believe that there aren't a lot of horror films being made anymore because there is such a high demand for a higher level of cinema regarding horror. Because there as so many technological advances in the 21st century a modern audience expects a lot from the production of a film, especially regarding horror such as special effects and CGI. A modern audience want to be baffled and want to be shown animated symbols of horror such as the paranormal or the supernatural that seem real and when they don't get the highest standard that they want they claim the film's credit. I believe that realism is the way to go ahead with it and this is an element of Lovely Molly that I believe we should consider for our production. We need to make the film as realistic as possible because the way I see it is that a film that shows something that is so remote from everyday life like a werewolf for example is a lot less scary that something so real like odd happenings in your own home. This is a better factor of psychological horror. Something that makes you uncomfortable and feel unsafe even in your own home or around people you trust. This is the element we need to consider for our film and that's what Lovely Molly does. It creates you to empathise so much with our main character around the beginning and then shows you her deterioration and her struggle and you go through that with her. Also because it all mainly happens in her own home that is another component of a psychological horror that we are going to look into.
Reviews by critics:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lovely_molly_2011/
This is a review from the notorious film critic site Rotten Tomatoes. I have put this review in because it has reviews from at least 5 critics across the media base including a notorious review site efilmcritic.com and another that isn't so famous, FlipsideMovie Emporium. But this is an effective choice of review because we get to recieve reviews from a more mainstream point of view which is good as we get to see it from more of a professional and almost 'showy' perpective and from more of an independent view to look from an 'average person' type of view.
http://www.best-horror-movies.com/review?name=lovely-molly-2012-review
This is a site that is dedicated to reviewing horror films. Although it isn't very well known, the fact that it is a site that is specifically dedicated to the research and reviewing of a particular genre, the trust that we may have lost in the fact that it isn't very well known or at least not as well known as Rotten Tomatoes, we make up for that trust in its dedication to the genre. It makes us think that they do have expertise in the genre and they do know what they are talking about because the website it genre specific. Also because the website isn't exactly professional you get to see what the films are like from almost the 'average persons' view.
My review and the films relevance:
I chose to look at Lovely Molly in regards to similar films to the one that we would like to create as it create the quintesensial atmosphere for a psychologcal horror film and the exact feeling that we would like to create when filming our. The fact that Lovely Molly uses a lot of jump cuts between events that Molly encounters in shows how fragmented her character is. This is the exact aura that we would like to creat for Violet. When the film begins we aren't sure whether it is exactly Molly's fault that she is under some sort of seige but as the film develops it gives you more and more clues as to what it is that has put Molly in these circumstances and this is what we would like to do with Violet. I feel that for a psychological horror film to really be effective you cannot heave the entire plotline at the audience all at once for them to be into the film. It is better to work on a schema and reveal slow snippets of things such as secrets and past sins that would slowly ensure the audience figures the film out for them selves. I feel that this is exactly what Lovely Molly does. Through fragments and jump cuts between events we get to really delve into the mind set of Molly and this is what we are trying to incorporate into our character Violet. We would like use the fragmented story by create a non-linear plot line.
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